Category: Service announcements

Deletion of very old Blackboard courses (2015-16)

Posted on by Hanrahan Highland

In line with the University’s Data Retention policy, we will be deleting all Blackboard unit courses from the academic year 2015-16 (and earlier). These courses are already unavailable to staff and students. The deletion will take place on September 1 – please contact the DEO (digital-education@bristol.ac.uk) before that date if you have any questions or concerns about this process. Once the courses are deleted, their content will no longer be available on our Blackboard system.

New Turnitin AI writing score column in the Assignment Inbox

Posted on by digitaleducation

From 5 August 2025, Turnitin has introduced a new AI writing score column within the Assignment Inbox of the classic Standard Assignment in Feedback Studio. This feature is retroactive and applies to previously submitted work.

The AI writing score column is only visible to instructors on the course. Students do not have access to it.

AI Writing disclaimer
AI Writing disclaimer

Before the AI writing scores become visible, users must first read, scroll down and accept a disclaimer. This will appear the next time you access a Turnitin assignment and only needs to be accepted once. If the disclaimer is declined, the AI score will remain blurred in the submission list.

If you have any questions about this feature, please get in contact with digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.

Scheduled Turnitin Maintenance, Saturday 9 August, 2025

Posted on by digitaleducation

Turnitin have informed us that their services will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday 9 August between 16:00 and 22:00 BST. During this maintenance window, users will be unable to submit or mark papers, or to view marks, feedback or similarity reports.

Further information is available on the Turnitin status page.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Questionmark upgrade, 4-7 August 2025

Posted on by Roberta Perli

Questionmark will be upgrading our system on 4 August 2025. During the upgrade, the system will remain available but ‘at risk’. We don’t recommend using Questionmark between 4 and 7 August – this period will be used to carry out critical testing and configure the settings for the new system.

This upgrade introduces a new user interface for both staff and students, as well as enhanced functionality, including the Questionmark secure browser and Next Gen scheduling.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.

 

Deletion of Re/Play content.

Posted on by Pete Herbert

As part of our summer programme of work, we will be deleting the oldest lecture capture content from the Re/Play service. This content was recorded in the academic years 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18. These recordings were made for students who have now completed their programmes of study and the majority of them have not been viewed in the last three years.

These recordings will be removed from the system on 1st September 2025. If you require any recordings from this period, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk with the unit code, title of the recording and date it took place, and we will transfer ownership.

This will not affect any recordings made by an individual or manually uploaded into the system. If you have any questions, please contact the Digital Education Office by emailing our team.

 

 

Projects not showing up in Xerte authoring tool

Posted on by Martin Nutbeem

We are aware of an issue with Xerte, where authors preexisting projects are not displayed when logged into the authoring portal. Similarly they cannot create new projects.

Published projects are working as expected, e.g. embedded Xerte projects in Blackboard or using the supplied weblinks.

IT Services have been informed and are investigating the issue. We will provide updates via this blog.